Good Performing Related Books...Your Favorites!!!

[Butterfly Man]

Fellow followers (of this thread),

I concur with David. Whether or not someone drives the bus, this will (and should be) a collaborative effort. After all, how much can one person know on any subject?
I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you in the fact that I can fly around to the different parts of the globe at reasonable fees in order to research the project (Kumi sez it’s OK as long as I don’t make any $ ...damn Japs and their ethics).
So where to begin? I have a call into Dubé already re: Patty’s European transcripts ... when he responds, I’ll let you all know what gives. Aside from that, it seems we should go back and reassess our history (not just the ‘70’s). This would seem to be a logical starting point. Again, I have to agree with Checker, subdivisions of the subject matter are necessary in order to clarify our perspective. Besides David’s suggestions does anyone else see any obvious choices?
One more thing, (and this comes from yet another post by Checker but on a different thread) ... “it’s all about relationship”. I learned that to be true (a long time ago) in any kind of storytelling and remain a strong proponent of the philosophy. So, my last question is: Who tells the story and who are we telling it to?
A word of caution (mostly to myself), back seat drivers don’t always see the road with the same eyes ... proceed slowly and use caution.

Are you on the bus, or off the bus?

Sorry, I always wanted to say that,
Robert

[checkerhead]

Might it be an idea to take this discussion of a new book on street performing into it's own topic... The heading for this topic is "Good Performing Related Books" not "Good ideas for a Performing Related book... Not that it's a crime to get off topic, but I like where this discussion is going an I think it deserves it's own thread separate from a lot of other books about performance.

[martin ewen]

This is potentially exciting!
It would have to be coffee table sized.
It would need to include profiles of many many people.
I see no relationship between my rectum and the pen in my hand but some would call it anal--I'm a bit of a list freak and I've been doing semi-kind profiles for a few years.
There really are a lot of us.
multiply that by 3 as you go back 3 decades.
Or it could be a 'in their own words' thing with text relating to specific photoes.
Whos got the most photoes? Shelly?

[Peter Voice]

Shelly would undoubtedly have a great collection of photos but they would all be from Edmonton and that would not really evoke our world. Pics that demonstrate a time and place would be better, showing people working the famous pitches and cities even some of the bizaare places people have performed.
Perhaps people could submit favourites (of themselves or others) for selection. It could be done via email, initially with small files then bigger files when a photo is accepted.

[martin ewen]

Admittedly it would only cover a decade but shellys stuff would for the most part be photoes sent to her from around rather than edmonton based pictures.
I don't think finding images will be a problem. I think the most difficult aspect will be getting a design and copy team together and deciding on a format and budget.
Still the first thing is for robert to tranverse the globe 3 or 4 times on Kumi's frequent flyer points, shaking all our hands, sitting us all down individually over a drink or something and playing anecdotal olympics.

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[Butterfly Man]

If you all haven't noticed already I took Checkers advise and started:

"Just a few seats left"... for the ultimate street performers book of the new millennium

... please visit me there and make my life a living hell.

Leader of followers

[Prof Willie B]

Lead on Great Elder, we shall follow.
May levity be by your side throughout this harrowing endeavour (don't try and tell too many jokes on the plane though, it's the unicycle effect).

[Jim]

Hi ALL,

This thread is closed.

If you're looking for Butterfly's Street Performing Book Project, go to Just a Few Seats Left elsewhere in this forum.

Everyone else, Please cut and paste any text below (in this topic) and start individual topics for individual books. That will make things easier to browse.

Jim!




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